Re: What's the best purchase you've ever made and why ?

FrediFizzx wrote:
> Dirt, what is the "Calif. Map Act"?
> 
> Fred
> 
> "-DirtBag©" <"-Dirt\"@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> news:482F71C2.8000104@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> Joe wrote:
>>> Exlcuding anything to do with admirable things like making a
>>> charitable donation and / or paying for education (be it yours or
>>> someone elses), what so far is
>>> the best purchase you've ever made and please elaborate on why you
>>> think so.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>> Buying 2450 acres of property in a prime rural location for next to 
>> nothing in 1986 and using a little known process of re-establi****ng 
>> and reclaiming correct title via historical patents and certificates 
>> of compliance in essence cir***vented The Calif Map Act.  Have been 
>> selling off parcels for 20-years now.  That single deal and the 
>> profits it generated generated have paved the way for many profitable 
>> developments which would never have been possible without this cash 
>> cow.. Original Cost $225-ac. Averaged Sale $4200-AC   Real Estate 
>> 'Dirt' is where is the money is. Unless your really lucky in the stock 
>> market. 
> 


The Map Act. attempted to standardize develop and set criteria for 
subdividing California.  Basically it was intended to supersede the 
small counties in California rules for development and set state-wide 
standards.  It covered areas like road gradients, water requirements, 
access to power, etc. It was intended to basically keep the shoddy 
developers from carving up California like they did Florida with 
haphazard and poorly designed subdivisions.

See:
CALIFORNIA SUBDIVISION MAP ACT
GOVERNMENT CODE
SECTION 66410-66499

  In counties like Mendocino, Lake, Napa, Santa Cruz, where you can find 
all kinds of shoddy historical parcels going back to patents given to 
soldiers and others in order to populate California in the 1800-1900's.

Note:( parcels used to be called Patents and if you understand how to 
find these patents and use the process for re-establi****ng the parcel 
using a certificate of compliance method, you can place yourself into a 
favorable position to negotiate with the State for exemptions and 
effectively reestablish the historical maps and using other little 
tricks which I will not broadcast here though if your interested in 
learning more Fred you can contact me and I will be happy to clue you in 
further.   If your forte is historical do***ent research then this is 
quite useful in determining whether or not patents exist on the 
historical maps which do not show up on the modern maps done after the 
Map act.  In essence the state government tried to pull a fast one.. We 
figured a way to beat them at their game.